THE PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY OF SINGAPORE BANKS: AN APPLICATION AND EXTENSION OF THE BARRET AL.(1999) APPROACH

Wai Ho Leong and Brian Dollery ()
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Wai Ho Leong: Economics Division, Ministry of Trade and Industry, 100 High Street, Singapore 179434, Republic of Singapore

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2004, vol. 49, issue 02, 273-290

Abstract: While a voluminous literature exists on the measurement of financial institution efficiency, little work has been directed at investigating the properties of data envelopment analysis (DEA) scores by examining the relationships between these scores and traditional measures of bank performance. Following the seminal work of Barr, Killgo, Siems and Zimmel (1999), this paper employs data on Singapore financial institutions for the period 1993 to 1999 to develop efficiency scores for Singapore banks. It then examines the manner in which derived DEA efficiency scores interact with traditional measures of profitability, size, risk and soundness.

Keywords: Bank performance measures; data envelopment analysis; financial services; productive efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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